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The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.

The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped–not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.
– Sophocles

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